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The economic truths of Socialism, its industrialism, and its sociology, must remain the vainest of vain dreamings unless we preserve among the people the political frame of mind which can appreciate democratic liberty and worth. When "a man's a man for a' that" is recited without making the blood tingle, the man has ceased to be.

— Ramsay MacDonald Socialism and Government (1909)

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Felt the virtues of the Victorian times so condemned by Mr Strachey. The simple honesties can always be made a butt by the impish unrealiabilites.

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If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.

Mr. Lloyd George will not resign on anything anti-German. He is anti-German, and the trust which the reasonable Peace people place in him is altogether misplaced.

State Charity is not socialism but may become the greatest menace the Socialist Movement [has been] threatened with.

Letter (1909)

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